September 2011
2 posts
ListenI flew back from Tunisia through Paris, and...
Sep 11th
It's Better in the Second Kingdom
Inspired by Elif Batuman’s piece in the September Harper’s, I finally finished the Hollanders’ translation of The Inferno, which I started last year. Naturally, when I had finished the Inferno (Spoiler! Hell is pretty much as you’ve heard: a frozen wasteland with Satan at its very center, half-buried in ice, chomping on the body of Judas), I plunged straight into The...
Sep 5th